I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, ‘Why do you do this?’ I said, ‘Because I love you.’
There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.
At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.
A Mother is the heart of the home.
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.
God never sends us more than we can handle.
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of Himself.
Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier.
There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn’t learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don’t really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it’s because they do not know them.
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors – Pray for us.
If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love.
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: ‘What will convert America and save the world?’ My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.
Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.